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An extensive set of subject-specific guideline pages for different aspects of notability can be found at Category:Wikipedia notability guidelines, with subject specific essays and proposed guidelines at Category:Wikipedia notability. Wikipedia's article on Notability in the English Wikipedia. For commentary and discussion of this guideline, see ...
On Wikipedia, notability is a test used by editors to decide whether a given topic warrants its own article. For people, the person who is the topic of a biographical article should be "worthy of notice" [1] or "note" [2] —that is, "remarkable" [2] or "significant, interesting, or unusual enough to deserve attention or to be recorded" [1] within Wikipedia as a written account of that person ...
This category contains notability guidelines, including the general notability guideline and the various subject-specific notability guidelines . Proposed notability guidelines and other pages related to inclusion can be found in Category:Wikipedia notability , where there are numerous additional essays.
Wikipedia is a nation of laws, not [mostly] men, and the guiding document at play on the project is the general notability guideline (GNG). In theory, notability is not about a person's importance, but only whether significant independent coverage in multiple reliable sources exists about them. Though GNG is the main guideline, there are sub ...
This category contains pages concerning notability – the importance or significance of an article subject, which affects the inclusion of that article in Wikipedia. Discussion of these is ongoing, and this category includes essays, proposals and rejected proposals as well as guidelines.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, a specific type of reference work properly containing articles on topics of knowledge.Wikipedia employs the concept of notability to avoid indiscriminate inclusion of topics by attempting to ensure that the subjects of articles are "worthy of notice" – by including articles only on topics that the world has taken note of by substantively treating them in ...
Wikipedia's notability requirement is perhaps the most confusing of all of Wikipedia's core requirements and guidance. The system mostly works, but is very difficult to fully understand or explain. Lack of recognition of how it actually works presents a roadblock to progress and clarification in this area.
As the Wikipedia community has grown, its rules have in turn become more complex, a trend known as instruction creep. [5] This trend is reflected in the development and increasing complexity of the notability guidelines, with various special notability guidelines being proposed for specific topic areas, including notability criteria for porn stars.